The measures include provisions requiring insurance companies to consistently cover treatment for addiction, funding for public awareness of drug use and funding for more New York state troopers to investigate heroin trafficking.

At the signing, Cuomo, a Democrat said a third of heroin seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency came from New York. State public health officials say deaths from heroin overdoses in New York more than doubled from 215 in 2008 to 478 in 2012.